Wednesday, September 01, 2004

So, what have you sold?

Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of The Croning Laird
Barron's BLOOD STANDARD, to Sara Minnich at Putnam, in a
very nice deal, for publication in May 2018,

Non-fiction: Biography

Hilary Holladay's WAKING IN THE DARK, the
first full-scale life of Adrienne Rich, the revered, often controversial, and
enormously influential poet, essayist, and lesbian-feminist activist, to Nan
Talese at Nan A. Talese, in a nice deal, for publication in 2019

Fiction: Mystery/Crime

Terry Shames's A RECKONING IN THE BACK
COUNTRY, the next in the Samuel Craddock series, to Dan Mayer at
Seventh Street, in a nice deal, for publication in 2018, by Janet Reid at New
Leaf Literary & Media.

Fiction: Mystery/Crime

Loretta Sue Ross's DEATH AND THE VIKING'S
DAUGHTER, the next book in the Auction Block series in which the
death of a Viking reenactor reopens an old unsolved murder, to Terri Bischoff
at Midnight Ink, in a nice deal, for publication in 2018

Non-fiction: Reference

Jeff Somers's WRITING WITHOUT RULES:
Unconventional Strategies to Write and Sell Your Novel on Your Own Terms,
advice on building a writing career, to Rachel Randall at Writer's Digest
Books, in a nice deal, for publication in 2018

Non-fiction: Parenting

Essayist and PT blogger Deborah Vlock's WHAT DO I
DO NOW, on the day to day challenges, with reality-tested solutions
and guidance, for parents of young children who are suicidal; suicide is the
third leading cause of death among middle-schoolers, to Suzanne Staszak-Silva
at Rowman & Littlefield, in a nice deal,

Fiction: Mystery/Crime

Gary Corby's DEATH ON DELOS, the seventh
book in the series sends the hero to the island of Delos where Athens keeps her
treasury; another has decided the treasury will be safer in Athens; needless to
say the Delosians do not agree, to Juliet Grames at Soho Press, in a nice deal,
for publication in 2017

Non-fiction: History/Politics/Current Affairs

Jill Farinelli's INTO THE TEETH OF DEATH,
about the harrowing journey of the ill-fated Princess Augusta in 1738, and
through it a look at the larger story of the first wave of non-English
immigrants to America: the Germans, to Stephen Hull at University Press of New
England,

Czech rights to Laird Barron's THE BEAUTIFUL THING
THAT AWAITS US ALL, to Jakub Nemecek at...

Fiction: Mystery/Crime

Phillip Depoy's COLD FLORIDA, in which a
Jewish car thief on the run from the Brooklyn authorities, ends up in Florida
as an unlikely, but tenacious, child protection office is called upon to find
missing infant only to discover missing doesn't always mean whereabouts
unknown, to Faith Black at Severn House, in a nice deal, for publication in
2016,

Fiction: Mystery/Crime

Gary Corby's DEATH EX MACHINA, the fifth
book in the Mean Streets of Classical Athens series, in which a theatrical
murder during the sacred festival of Dionysus sends classical Athens into
uproar, and SINGER FROM MEMPHIS, the sixth book in the
series, which travels to ancient Eqypt as the three top agents of the classical
world are in a race to find the sacred insignia — the crook and flail — of the
last Pharaoh of Egypt; whoever wins will decide the fate of Egypt, again to
Juliet Grames at Soho Press, in a nice deal, for publication in 2015

Fiction: Mystery/Crime

Macavity Award winning Terry Shames The Necessary
Murder of Nonie Blake, the fifth book in the Sam Craddock series to
Dan Mayer at Seventh Street Books.

Fiction: General/Other

Phillip DePoy's A PRISONER IN MALTA, the
first in a new series featuring a young Christopher Marlowe, who is recruited
by Walsingham to help thwart an intricate plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth
I, to Keith Kahla at Minotaur, in a two-book deal, for publication in Winter
2016, by Janet Reid at FinePrint Literary Management (World).

Fiction: Mystery/Crime

Loretta Ross's DEATH AND THE RED-HEADED
WOMAN, while preparing a house for auction, a dead body adds some
questionable value to the estate, to Terri Bischoff at Midnight Ink, in a nice
deal, in a three-book deal, for publication in Winter 2015, by Janet Reid at
FinePrint Literary Management (World).

Fiction: Debut

Jim Ringel's WOLF, pitched as the story of a man and his dog
viewed through the prism of Salvador Dali, to Curiosity Quills Press, for
publication in May 2014, by Janet Reid at FinePrint Literary Management (NA).

Non-fiction: History/Politics/Current Affairs

SAUDI ARABIA ON THE EDGE author Thomas Lippman's HERO OF THE
CROSSING, a fresh appraisal of the role of Anwar Sadat in the 1973 Yom Kippur
War, drawing on previously classified material and personal knowledge and
relationships with all the key players to put a critical period of history in
full context for the first time, for publication in 2015, to Potomac Books, by
Janet Reid at FinePrint Literary Management.

Fiction: Mystery/Crime

Jeff Somers's CHUM, to Benjamin LeRoy at Tyrus Books, in a
nice deal, for publication in 2013, by Janet Reid at FinePrint Literary
Management (NA).

Fiction: Debut

Lee Goodman's debut INDEFENSIBLE pitched as "evocative
of Scott Turow" to Emily Bestler at Emily Bestler Books, in a very nice
deal, for publication in 2013, by Janet Reid at FinePrint Literary Management
(world).

NF-Reference

Phillip DePoy's THE TAO AND THE BARD, a union of the two
great poetical traditions -- each verse of the Tao paired with lines of
dialogue from the plays of Shakespeare, to Cal Barksdale at Skyhorse for
publication in 2013, in a nice deal.

Mystery/Crime

Gary Corby's SACRED GAMES, the next book in the Athenian
Series featuring an investigator who walks the mean streets of Classical
Athens, to Juliet Grames at Soho Press, in a nice deal, for publication in 2013

Fiction: Urban fantasy

Jeff Somers's TRICKSTER, first in a new urban fantasy series
featuring a cadre of mages operating just under the radar of human society, to
Adam Wilson at Pocket, in a very nice deal, at auction, for publication in
2013,

Fiction: Thriller

NYT bestselling author of The Breach, Patrick Lee's new
high-octane thriller RUNNER featuring ex-special forces operative Sam Dryden,
to Keith Kahla at Minotaur, in a major deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in
early 2014

NF-Memoir

Richard Gilbert's I WAS A M/AD MAN, the behind-the-scenes
look at a one of the real life Mad Men who pushed the boundaries of print
advertising, and led the fight to protect commercial free speech, and creator
of the iconic Some Toys Hate War ad, to Mary Cummings at Diversion Books.

Fiction: Thriller

Dana Haynes's ICE COLD KILL and untitled sequel, featuring a
former Shin-Bet agent, now freelance, with a murky past and deadly skills, in a
thriller pitched as "La Femme Nikita if written by Robert Ludlum," to
Keith Kahla at Minotaur, in a good deal, for publication in spring 2013

Fiction/Debut:

Winner of the 2010 William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant
for Unpublished Writers Stephanie Evans's FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH, in which a
Church of Christ minister discovers that listening is not just "an act of
love;" it's dangerous, to Shannon Jamieson Vazquez at Berkley, in a nice
deal, for publication in Spring 2012.

Literary Fiction:

Sean Ferrell's (NUMB) second novel MAN IN THE EMPTY SUIT to
Juliet Grames at Soho Press. World English.

NonFiction: Contemporary issues

National Journal correspondent Marc Ambinder and The
Atlantic contributor D.B. Grady's SECRETS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AND WHAT
YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW, a portrait of the inner workings of the most
secretive levels of the federal government, to Eric Nelson at Wiley, at
auction, by Janet Reid at FinePrint Literary Management (NA).

Mystery/Crime

Bill Cameron's DAY ONE, the third novel to feature former
cop Skin Kadash, this time in a multi-skeined story about a troublesome
unsolved murder that gathers to a bloody standoff in Portland's Mt. Tabor Park,
to Ben Leroy at Tyrus Books, in a nice deal, for publication in Summer 2010

Fiction: Thriller

Dana Haynes's CRASHERS, in which a jetliner crashes in the
lush lovely Willamette Valley of Oregon, triggering a response from the NTSB
team of "crashers"-the investigators; usually they have months to
find the cause of the crash; this time it's 70 hours, to Keith Kahla at
Minotaur, in a good deal, in a two-book deal, for publication in Spring 2010

Memoir:

Robin Becker's BRAINS: a zombie memoir, the first-person
account of a college professor-turned-zombie who retains his sentience and
recruits others like him on a heroic quest to fend off the living while
searching for the meaning of un-life, to Gabe Robinson at Harper, in a nice
deal, for publication in Summer 2010.

Fiction:

Sean Ferrell's NUMB, literary action/adventure novel about a
man who wanders into a circus, and discovers he feels no pain and has no memory
of how he got that way; and is then discovered by fame, fortune, and a New York
talent agent, to Gabe Robinson at Harper, in a nice deal, for publication in
Fall 2010

Memoir

Alysia Sofios's WHERE HOPE BEGINS, memoir of the author's
investigation of the 2004 Wesson Murders in Fresno, California in which she
risked her reporting career and safety to help free the remaining members of
the Wesson family from the psychological clutches of their murderous father and
husband, to Abby Zidle at Pocket, in a significant deal.

Non-fiction: Pop Culture

Dawn Rae Downton's THE LITTLE BOOK OF CURSES AND
MALEDICTIONS FOR EVERYDAY USE, the modern day guide to exacting stylish revenge
using spells, incantations, hexes, imprecations, and execrations for the worst
messes (and people) in your life, to Ann Treistman at Skyhorse.

Fiction: Debut

Kennedy Foster's ALL ROADS LEAD ME BACK TO YOU, in which a
rancher and a ranch hand come to love each other in the austere terrain of
Eastern Washington; overcoming cultural misunderstandings, the threat of
deportation, the looming menace of a lien holder, and the problems of a loving
family, to Abby Zidle at Pocket, in a nice deal.

Memoir

Poet, Oregon Arts fellow, and PW book reviewer Amy Minato's
chronology of her "unplugged year wriggling free from a consumer
life" on SIESTA LANE with seven people, eight acres, one telephone, three
cars, seven unheated cabins, one main house and fifteen miles to the nearest
town, to Ann Treistman at Skyhorse, in a nice deal.

Thriller

Patrick Lee's first two Travis Chase thrillers THE BREACH
and GHOST COUNTRY, starring an ex-convict who's a combination of Jack Bauer and
Jack Reacher, with supernatural suspense reminiscent of Dean Koontz and James
Rollins, to Sarah Durand at William Morrow, in a pre-empt.

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